The Popular Magazine

This issue of Popular Magazine (September 20, 1919) contains multiple serials and short stories across adventure, mystery, and exotic settings. The featured complete novel "The Glyphs" by Roy Norton follows adventurers fascinated by Maya stone carvings who travel in search of a lost Central American metropolis, their courage serving as "magic" through trials in tropical jungle. "The Lion of the Mountains" by Henry Herbert Knibbs features Benito and burros in a mine dispute. "Maru" by H. de Vere Stacpoole offers a Pacific idyll. Dane Coolidge contributes the first installment of "Fate and the Fighter," concerning mining claims in a competitive frontier. "Classic Salvage" by Frederick J. Jackson involves a Pacific coast sea captain. Howard Fielding's serialized "Breath of the Devil" concludes with a story about coin-spinning. Edison Marshall's "The Mole" depicts an unwelcome cellar tenant. Serials continuing include Edgar Wallace's "The Green Rust" and George Bronson-Howard's "The Master of the Mercenaries." Supporting editorial and topical content address contemporary concerns.